Trailer here.
Not exactly safe for work.
My friend (who lives in Russia) can’t understand all the outrage over it.
Me, I watched the trailer and immediately thought “Holy shit…they DIDN’T expect backlash from a game like this?”
So anyway, would you buy and play this game?
Can’t watch videos at work–would you be willing to summarize it?
No, I would not buy it. The video doesn’t seem to indicate that you are doing anything other than killing people who can’t fight back. That isn’t a game.
Ah. Yeah, no chance I’d play it. I quit Prototype because I couldn’t get through a particular mission without squishing really stupid civilians (who saw me rolling slowly down a street in a tank and wandered, screaming, out into the road, where they milled around until squish). That ain’t fun.
Left,
It’s a rampage shooter simulator, basically.
Idle,
They’re counting on the backlash. Just like the game series Postal a few years ago, their product is really shitty so they use shock jock tactics to get free publicity. Quite a few people and organizations are quite happy to take it up to grind their particular axe. Both the developers and the axe grinders get something out of it.
No, I wouldn’t buy game anymore than I’d listen to shock jocks on the radio or watch Jerry Springer-clones.
The only way in which it’s interesting is a lesson in how to get free publicity. I’m surprised they didn’t include sexual assaults, kid-killing and animal cruelty.
Not that I have anything against violent media. I like Uwe Boll’s Rampage even though it’s Uwe Boll and it’s about a mass killer: Rampage (2009 film) - Wikipedia
Shoot and kill large groups of people (innocent people who are doing things like waiting for a bus), often in the most horrible and graphic way possible and most of the time while they are cowering, crying, and trying to get away from you.
The very reason games like that exist is because people talk about how violent and hateful it is. That creates buzz, which will result in sales, which is the goal. I would greatly prefer that games like this just be ignored rather than have free publicity with discussions about them, which lead inevitable rending of cloth and cries of “what about the children”.
YMMV
I’ll buy any game once it winds up in an indie bundle. Then I’ll backlog it with 98% of my games so I don’t even have to feel guilty playing it.
The content doesn’t bother me.
What would turn me off is that the game looks terrible. If the trailer is representative of the game, it appears to have been done in the color scheme of “grey, another grey, and some darker grey” and features graphics and an interface that looks like they’re at the cutting edge of 2005.
Yes. I liked Postal, and that is basically how I play GTA and Saints Row anyways.
It’s just a game after all.
I wouldn’t buy it but if I got a free copy I’d definitely play.
Some of the best times playing Grant Theft Auto is just meandering around running people over and/or shooting them. Also the game of “Let’s kill as many cops as we can until we die” is always fun in GTA games.
It’s just not interesting to me. Maybe if there was some sort of nuanced storyline, some choices and consequences, gameplay that looked like it might be challenging, rather than a shooting gallery?
But I doubt it features any of that.
Just doesn’t seem like any fun.
I wouldn’t touch this game, and not just because it’s violent. Frankly, the protagonist sounds like a loser. Someone like The Boss in SR2 can be an awesome character despite being a horrible person, but this guy seems more Elliot Rodger than Ned Kelly.
While I didn’t quit there, that did annoy me too.
My attitude towards that is pretty much the same as that towards stuff like brutal death metal; ok fine, there are people in this world who can get into that stuff. Whatever. [Only difference is that death metal song and album titles often crack me up…nothing humorous about that video.]
It looks a bit grim for me. I can take being the bad guy if it’s done humorously, for instance, but this seems to be played straight.
Everything I’ve heard about it makes it sound at best like a bad game that the developers are trying to sell by being “edgy”. So no; I have good games that I’ve yet to get around to playing.
Agreed that it simply looks both boring and badly done. So no interest here.
I probably won’t play it as I can see myself getting bored really fast. I don’t get the outrage, though.
I played and beat the first two Postal games. Those two are very different, besides the isometric vs. first person view. The first is basically a psychotic person (read: crazy) snapping and killing a bunch of people at random events. The second is a psychopath (read: asshole) who can go around murdering people or doing completely nice things. The latter isn’t nearly as fun, but on the other hand I don’t care for violence for the sake of violence if the gameplay is not good. The humor of Postal 2 was also appealing: you could play by killing nobody, but urinating on cops instead. The first one was more of a slog: “kill a high school marching band! Next, kill a college marching band!”
Realistically, I doubt I’ll play it as I have only so much time.
Man, Jack Thompson disbarred, Leland Yee indicted, there are no good villains anymore.
The voice acting and the guy’s manifesto was pretty funny in an unintentional sort of way.